as funds are celebrates military success in mali we take a closer look at the possible complications the campaign could bring. egypt's military chief his country is on the verge of collapse but says the army will stand firm on a continuing clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces. and president obama said two police chiefs of the u.s. cities devastated by deadly mass shootings to support tougher gun control rules on many there still defend their right to bear.

it's eleven pm here in moscow are you watching r g i'm to bomb what's a present for us all along has hailed france's military intervention in mali as a success amalia an army has made big advances against islamist insurgents all with the assistance of french troops and early arches tom bottoms told my colleague and his son now about the progress made so far and the problems that have come with it . campaign starts with french troops about two and a half weeks ago sweeping up from the center of the country up to with these these islamist held areas meeting very little resistance really they are they go on there was an incident here in car no where in fact a french helicopter strike killed some civilians apart from that though the french

had been welcomed with with street parties and crowds coming out to greet the convoys as they arrived in each of these towns the islamist militants retreating not wanting to stand and fight many people thinking that they have been retreating further into the deserts in the north there's only one town of appreciable size left to capture after the fall of of timbuktu without nearly without a shot fired and then it seems that the next stage of the operation will be to try and hunt out islamist militants who have gone to hide in the desert and many observers think that it's possible a guerrilla war may result in the desert there after that there is also increased involvement from other countries and ecowas force of west african troops about seven thousand five hundred of them are coming into mali to take over some garrison duties and steadily take over the fighting role from the french there's

also been talk in brussels of e.u. troops being sent to train some of the local soldiers and the u.k. has announced it's going to send a small force but then other soldiers also to protect those those troops sent to train local soldiers as well and a new house was already involved as well and it was there was absolutely so far the u.s. has been sending aerial support it's been sending transport planes refueling planes it seems now though it's reported that the u.s. may be in negotiations with an easy chair next to mali over the possibility. all of a drone base there and those drones flying from near the border with mali could take part in these operations to try and hunt out islam is millicent's. there's also been talk of a u.s. base down in. the south of mali the details of that not really

clear at the moment it is worth noting though. is very rich in natural resources oil gold you renia a lot of those exports go to france and the u.s. so we have talk of drones a u.s. base how far could this possibly spread. the question on many people's lips as the as the first phase of this operation winds up where are these militants going to go where is the violence going to go raising the fears that around the region this fighting as the militants are pushed out of the strongholds they've been in they could scatter all over the place and spread violence with them and it might be a fair argument then to say that the french might be getting a little bit ahead of themselves by claiming there's been a successful mission the government has announced is sending three hundred fifty non-combat military personnel to mali and west africa it's only two weeks after prime minister david cameron's players that no british army's boots are would step

on money soil labor m.p. jeremy coburn says it would have been better if the prime minister i kept his promise. david cameron is getting sucked into something that i don't think he's seriously thought through two weeks ago we started offering transport planes to france we then sent force protection to back up the transport planes we sent trainers and we have additional force protection to protect them we then have surveillance aircraft going overhead and there are reports of u.k. special forces i think we've been dragged into this the danger is the more you send any troops in trainers over anything else just suppose something awful happens like one of the training groups is killed by what are termed to be insurgent forces what then happens you then go after those groups who then have a greater british military involvement we may well be in for a quite a long term high tech surveillance. warfare being conducted by the french and

possibly with britain and others. against people that know the terrain very well and will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. the head of egypt's army is warning that the country is on the verge of collapse after almost weeks of violent and rest between the government and opposition militias only the cabinet pushed through a law giving the military the power of arrest on the president declared a state of emergency and curfews in three provinces this was ignored by protesters who took to the streets and mass across the country calling for regime change there was no breakthrough in attempts at a compromise see opposition acknowledge calls for national dialogue by the president in cairo calls continued to clash with security forces leaving piles of burning typically in the streets after midnight the co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt says the statement by the army chief has

signaled the military is playing out its own game behind the scenes of the surface interpretation of what's happening definitely there are groups who are willing to sabotage anything and try to embarrass the government specifically morsi and the military. on the surface however there are deeper interpretations of what's going on some of the interpretation goes as far as that the military council or the military is behind all of this so that big can have. the grip over this intensify their presence militarily over there probably don't want to see an economic development of this specific strategic area because it would hand over to civilian oversight of the canal rather than military oversight of the canal according to the new constitution there's something called the national defense council this council in most countries and previously had an advisory structure

right now it has more of an executive that has more military members on board than civilians which outnumbers the civilians including the commander in chief the president which means they. can force the president to take certain decisions which we have just seen in the past couple of days when they had the commander in chief say that he will declare martial law or emergency emergency law in those specific areas. to syria now where activists and rebels say the bodies of sixty five young men have been found on the bank of the river in the northern syrian city of aleppo i must warn you that viewers may find the following footage extremely disturbing most of them had they had said hands tied behind their backs with gunshot wounds to the heads of bodies were covered in a knot and show signs of decay i'd have us say more bodies could still be in the

water at the moment there's no confirmation of who carried out the killings but it is a chief of this trend either online blogger paolo rough phoning says the culprits are well known. for its rebel forces. training to. existing government of syria. really that means they. must be given permission of the possible sides we have to divide these situations between there's certain rebellion of it started doing the. lord's faction eg against the like a democracy and there is a three groups. that are lies that are out of the the salafi. is and the religious beliefs that are destroying basically the syrian society and

the country if our side falls. to foresee already into some addition of syria which would be even worse for free for the syrians first of all but also for all the neighboring countries. some of the great powers that have been trying to deal with syria so far. president barack obama has met with the police chiefs from cities in the us where mass shootings have occurred he wants to support a full review of the country's gun control policy obama's proposal of tougher gun regulations and a ban on assault weapons have divided public opinion with many standing by the constitution second amendment the right to bear arms artie's gannett she can reports. white house proposals to regulate gun sales there are a wave of protest among those who believe the second amendment of the constitution is in danger as are amendment that there are a right arms it is

a god given right to the sanctity of the second amendment to meet heated national debate someone makers of even threaten to impeach the president to protect the constitution we're going to use every tool possible to fight in the ministration which once every great constitution but do u.s. lawmakers feel strongly about all amendments of that same constitution last month congress seamlessly without much ado passed legislation which gives the government sweeping powers to eavesdrop on communications and review e-mails of anyone they want it's called the foreign intelligence surveillance act the president amendments act completely is an infringement on your fourth amendment right against unlawful search and seizure and basically does away with the probable cause requirement there's been no national debate on the fourth amendment the mainstream media have been mute on the subject so to score it now as people don't even know about it if you're really savvy and you read a lot of online media you might have heard about pfizer being reauthorized

otherwise you're just totally unaware of it and how can you have an opinion on something that you're unaware of that proved to be true as we went out to ask people whether they knew what feisal was than what it could do to their fourth amendment rights have you heard about five. but no no sorry i think i have some idea that it has to do with our taxes but i don't really know but not surprisingly the same people that have opinions on gun control to keep our guns were pretty pro-gun control right now the government spying bill is not the only legislation that sneaked under the radar of public debate indefinite detention of americans without trial made legal is seen by many lawyers as a blatant violation of the fifth amendment which guarantees due process that was. something that should have been discussed in the presidential debates and people were begging the moderators to mention this it was never mentioned it was just not a part of the debates the constitution may be sicker to many in the us but it seems in washington to bypass it it's enough to say to magic words national security the

bill is passed these bills i feel like all that has to happen is literally like dianne feinstein waves a letter and says national security and they fear mongering begins and shuts down any kind of debate yet we're having a freewheeling debate on guns some argue it's money that keeps the gun debate at the forefront the national rifle association reportedly spent around twenty four million dollars on congressional elections last year and even more on lobbying to an extent when even as the majority of americans as polls show support some regulation on guns gun is dizziness believe no substantive legislation will be passed by the congress he is not going to be able to get anything through congress so i think that the second amendment will be ok the media in the us essentially broke into two camps each bringing all kinds of arguments against the other both

sides again and again reading into the text of the second amendment or doing what proposal would or would not be infringe on the people's right as nasty as they get sometimes but that's what a national debate should look like but one can't help asking where was that big that heated debate when other liberties were at stake in washington i'm going to check out. still to come this hour is seeking shelter the number of homeless people in britain looks set to like the magic to be as many believe in that new government policies will only further aggravate the situation story and much more often. wealthy british style.

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you're watching our. virgin which was once proud of having some of the most effective legislation in the world to spend of homelessness now has over fifty thousand people sleeping rough and with the government assuring in public sector spending cuts in an attempt to battle the country's financial troubles the number of homeless people is only expected to rise. when she read some of those living on the streets. it's freezing cold wet and hungry there's nowhere for you to go to dry off and no money in your pockets this street is all you've got and there's no one that will help you welcome to bernie and the case capital homelessness. remember right.

in there she should drop grandma why don't have one treat. her well and we shouldn't be home routers a lot of people do call where the search only be real car park where people live. all over the place this is why god truck they're here yet in the region are here michael is by no means alone in fact the number of homeless people in britain has skyrocketed by twenty five percent since twenty ten reaching fifty thousand people in twenty twelve the biggest spike in the city of birmingham you don't think again for people can see you can be walking past you can be sleeping next to a wall. for every. cold this is stupid specially this time we had to go for four days on the phone to eight twenty one year old matt fled his family home where he came to blows with his stepfather he had to sleep rough

before being granted emergency shelter in a birmingham hostel it's run by a charity that helps anyone down and out to find employment and get back on their feet looking for work. on the don't know like job and from the moment trying to get it stand you'll second stay at the hostel in three years after growing up in an out of foster care he's struggled to keep a roof over his head you going to do whatever it takes to find somewhere to sleep following morning. help and support it's a scary thing like you know you still go face all over again there just isn't enough low cost housing available and with unemployment rising hostels just like this one desperately need to expand the figures from the local authority of people presented as homeless having creased on average by about four hundred percent. for the growing homeless community squatting in one of the city's twelve

thousand empty homes used to be an option not anymore just before the winter set in westminster upgraded sporting from a civil matter to a criminal offense predictions that it would translate to more rough sleepers on the streets came true there are a lot of deprived areas in birmingham there are people that don't have working given i suppose with it being such a one time in industrialised center working class families but those jobs just don't exist anymore so i suppose that the poverty is just sort of breeding for the poverty and the reese the reason big mix of paper in the population and expanding the housing stock is and you know it's reached that point where it's just spilling over and can't cope anymore and with more government budget cuts kicking enough to rate prole many more persons are predicted to slip through the net as the housing crisis escalates probably boyko r t birmingham twenty one people have been

killed in a plane crash in kazakstan the plane carrying five crew and sixteen passengers went down near the city of all mobs in the country's south after one pm local time no one is reported to have survived to the challenger two hundred operated by has a company's dad was an internal flight and crashed while trying to land in harsh weather conditions investigators have recovered the plane's flight recorders and are now examining the data. now to some other world news this hour a suicide bomber has burned himself up inside somalia's presidential palace in mogadishu killing two people and injuring three others the attacker detonated his explosives outside the main gate of the residence after being stopped by guards for questioning the president was out of the country at the time of the attack. in belgium police are disbursed thousands of protesting steel workers with tear gas

and water cannon and several people were injured in the clashes the protest was against planned plant closures which could lead to the loss of thirteen hundred jobs the firm which announced the plans along the other steel companies face a lack of demand for steel and iron all this is potentially another blow for belgian workers after the recent announcement of ford car factory will shut down. france's labor minister has sent shivers down the spines of his compatriots after announcing that the country is bankrupt as a bankrupt state in a radio interview on sunday michele something later rebutted the comment saying it was a joke executive director added the advice is patrick young doesn't see the funny side. the problem is the french government is the biggest economic our tour in france it spans the equivalent of fifty six point five percent of all of the economic activity the only other countries that's spent more apart from sweden than

the european union are places like north korea and we all know those are not the world's most prosperous nations there is absolutely no question the french need incredible radical economic reform it was not present on the sarkozy administration and frankly the feckless and incompetence of mr hall on the president has resulted in the situation we have noise massive outpouring of cash these two three billion euros that's the equivalent of about two percent of the entire economy left the country just during october and november last year let's face it the last time the french government balance their books was in the middle of the nineteen seventies brown says in the fall in prices barely half the country are paying income tax you've got a situation where in fact public opinion is not starting to realize that france is bankrupt apolo figural today eighty percent of people agreed with mr suttles

comments it's no joke what mr sipe on said it's the truth. and i've side right now while people vent their anger at government consequences finance minister is painting a bright future for the country kind of the source of his optimism in r.t.e. dot com. i wrote landmark is about to get a facelift a lesson is that some brand is ready to pod millions for its restoration go online all. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee has approved president obama's nomination of john kerry as the next secretary of state he was chosen to succeed hillary clinton is stepping down after four years in the job politics and international studies professor stevens's believes john kerry is likely to be very much all school in his approach. he was an outspoken supporter of the iraq war and not being among the you know right wing minority of democrats on capitol hill that vote

authorizing the war but. not only. making up police danceable tales about mass and biological chemical weapons stockpiles and we are programmed in with us here livery systems i've come to think. it was clear that that was all there had so-called weapons of mass destruction we said you were voting for the war anyway because saddam hussein was a terrible dictator and they have the capacity of making those kind of weapons sometimes mentioned of course i backed right here together for twenty or thirty countries with authoritarian regime that i have or have a capability. unconventional weapons and kerry was essentially they can reopen certain lines that hey we have a right you know adelaide and he is putting aside the moral and legal arguments no iraq was your sastra we're now in libya we're seeing all those consequences in terms of two hundred thousand men under arms. and these militias are controlled by

the government you see the fault spread to mali to algeria elsewhere as a single part of short sightedness that we we've seen some of the other politicians in washington. next off to shove break maxence a seat expose adult secrets in the world of play the finance. the fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration ok. going to the huffington post who was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader this sounds really bad like something out of one nine hundred eighty four were thugs come out of

nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party blog to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report on max kaiser the end of the currency war is near you can tell because the japanese special currency attack units are being deployed

yes to tama kasi currency traders aka the tama carry traders have been ordered to the front line of the currency war. max yes you know that this currency war is raging as the u.s. dollar collapses and the latest big step of course has been germany asking for their gold back their brush on sweden netherlands austria everybody's looking for their gold where the heck is our gold well over there in japan where they were famous for their kamikazes especially from one thousand nine hundred four the end of the war revolutionary japan is suddenly the center of world affairs so japan may not slide into genteel oblivion after all to the surprise of the japanese people their country is smack in the middle of two riveting dramas that threaten to upturn the global strategic landscape in short order of course we see the conflict the hot

war build between japan and china but the majority of this piece is about their. all out monetary war but now fiscal war and shinzo abi the new prime minister is basically getting rid of the bank of japan independence because he's saying that they're not financial you know they're not one of these japanese special financial units you know they're not doing kamikaze enough and not destroying the currency enough it's only down twelve percent for example this year only since the beginning of the year against the dollar and twenty percent against the euro. right now i read somewhere that paul krugman the american suicide banker economist was applauding that the move gold the new all time highs and yet in terms of the japanese people are scrambling to get all the gold and so are they possibly can to protect themselves against suicide bankers and the suicide prime minister and this is it's playing out exactly as we started this war and so i'm the primo

did pretty much general of this war and i struck the troops to keep buying gold and silver to protect against suicide bankers in japan in a suicide prime minister has decided on a much like ball fragment of course the only difference now between the kamikaze pilots of the currency unit there and back in world war two is that it's a much older generation so they're all wearing adult nappies of course or adult diapers so you have suicide pilots wearing adult diapers which is actually what started with the that nasa pilot woman who was famous for wearing her diapers and driving cross-country to go try to kill her boyfriend certainly there's a bully in consequence of the third being their inability to hold onto the printing presses so they have diarrhea of the printing press and they're not taking any kind of medicine to stop that now you mention that paul krugman likes this policy and i'll tell you it was actually ben bernanke who.